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The use of orthologous sequences to predict the impact of amino acid substitutions on protein function.
PLoS genetics - 27 May 2010
Marini Nicholas J, Thomas Paul D, Rine Jasper
Abstract excerpt
Computational predictions of the functional impact of genetic variation play a critical role in human genetics research. For nonsynonymous coding variants, most prediction algorithms make use of patterns of amino acid substitutions observed among homologous proteins at a given site. In particular, substitutions observed in orthologous proteins from other species are often assumed to be tolerated in the human...
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